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We consider momentum operators on intrinsically curved manifolds. Given that the momentum operators are Killing vector fields whose integral curves are geodesics, it is shown that the corresponding manifold is either flat, or otherwise of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Thomas Schürmann

Motivated by the study of Killing forms on compact Riemannian manifolds of negative sectional curvature, we introduce the notion of generalized vector cross products on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and give their classification. Using previous results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Maria Laura Barberis , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

We consider spin manifolds with an Einstein metric, either Riemannian or indefinite, for which there exists a Killing spinor. We describe the intrinsic geometry of nondegenerate hypersurfaces in terms of a PDE satisfied by a pair of induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Diego Conti , Romeo Segnan Dalmasso

We define the notion of a Killing (super)algebra for a connection on a spinor bundle associated to a generalised spin structure on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of any signature. We are led naturally to include in the even subspace not only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Andrew D. K. Beckett

The localization tensor is a measure of distinguishability between insulators and metals. This tensor is related to the quantum metric tensor associated with the occupied bands in momentum space. In two dimensions and in the thermodynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bruno Mera

An approximate Killing field may be defined on a compact, Riemannian geometry by solving an eigenvalue problem for a certain elliptic operator. This paper studies the effect of small perturbations in the Riemannian metric on the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Christopher Beetle , Shawn Wilder

On a pseudo-Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{M}$ we introduce a system of partial differential Killing type equations for spinor-valued differential forms, and study their basic properties. We discuss the relationship between solutions of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Petr Somberg , Petr Zima

Explicit Riemannian metrics with Euclidean signature and anti-self dual curvature that do not admit any Killing vectors are presented. The metric and the Riemann curvature scalars are homogenous functions of degree zero in a single real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Malykh , Y. Nutku , M. B. Sheftel

This paper locally classifies finite-dimensional Lie algebras of conformal and Killing vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^2$ relative to an arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian metric. Several results about their geometric properties are detailed, e.g.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 M. M. Lewandowski , J. de Lucas

By applying the lightlike Eisenhart lift to several known examples of low-dimensional integrable systems admitting integrals of motion of higher-order in momenta, we obtain four- and higher-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes with irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 G. W. Gibbons , T. Houri , D. Kubiznak , C. M. Warnick

This is the third and last part of a series of 3 papers. Using the same method and the same coordinates as in parts 1 and 2, rotating dust solutions of Einstein's equations are investigated that possess 3-dimensional symmetry groups, under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrzej Krasinski

In the first part of this paper, we give a global description of simply connected maximal Lorentzian surfaces whose group of isometries is of dimension 1 (i.e. with a complete Killing field), in terms of a 1-dimensional generally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Lilia Mehidi

The correspondence between wind Riemannian structures and spacetimes endowed with a Killing vector field is deepened by considering a cone structure endowed with a vector field that preserve the structure (termed "cone Killing vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Erasmo Caponio , Miguel Angel javaloyes

Einstein complex spacetimes admitting null Killing or null homothetic Killing vectors are studied. These vectors define totally null and geodesic 2-surfaces called the null strings or twistor surfaces. Geometric properties of these null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-17 Adam Chudecki

On a Lorentzian manifold the existence of a parallel null vector field implies certain constraint conditions on the induced Riemannian geometry of a space-like hypersurface. We will derive these constraint conditions and, conversely, show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Helga Baum , Thomas Leistner , Andree Lischewski

Riemannian geometrical tools, such as Ricci collineations and Killing symmetries, so often used in Einstein general theory of gravitation are here applied to plasma physics to build magnetic surfaces from Einstein plasma metrics used in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garcia de Andrade

We study the geometry and the periodic geodesics of a compact Lorentzian manifold that has a Killing vector field which is timelike somewhere. Using a compactness argument for subgroups of the isometry group, we prove the existence of one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Jose Luis Flores , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Paolo Piccione

A pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifold with a Killing spinor and Killing constant $\lambda$ induces on its nondegenerate hypersurfaces a pair of spinors $\phi,\psi$ and a symmetric tensor $A$, corresponding to the second fundamental form.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Diego Conti , Federico A. Rossi , Romeo Segnan Dalmasso

We show that if a compact hypersurface $M \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \geq3$, admits a non zero Killing vector field $X$ of constant length then $n$ is even and $M$ is diffeomorphic to the unit hypersphere of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Actually,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Antonio J. Di Scala

The Rainich problem for the Killing-Yano tensors posed by Collinson \cite{col} is solved. In intermediate steps, we first obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2+2 almost-product structure to determine the principal 2--planes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. J. Ferrando , J. A. Sáez